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The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

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ISBN-13:	9781250039590
Publisher:	Picador
Publication date:	03/01/2016
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	239,360
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Olivia Laing is a writer and critic. Her first book, To the River, was published by Canongate to wide acclaim and shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and the Dolman Travel Book of the Year. She has been the deputy books editor of the Observer, and writes for The Guardian, New Statesman, and The Times Literary Supplement, among other publications. She is a MacDowell Fellow, and has received grants from the Arts Council and the Authors' Foundation. She lives in Cambridge, England.

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